I'm excited to share my contribution to the AHA's Authoritarianism 101 syllabus. My module uses a Sudanese national security report from 1971 to discuss how authoritarian regimes evaluate threats. historians.org/module/threat…

idk what the hell is going on in other disciplines but in History, lifting the citations from someone else's work is akin to plagiarism. You are falsely claiming to have done the research. It's intellectual dishonesty

"Muzan’s ability to create space for new possibilities should not be one that we yield in this terrible moment. By carrying her sensibility with us, we might build that better world, one of which she would be proud." atarnetwork.com/?p=26535

it’s okay to feel bad about bad things happening. to feel grief over loss, rage over injustice. it’s okay to weep and scream. it seems like poems are the last place where it’s okay to sit with a difficult set of tangled emotions. and leave it at that. at being a living thing.

“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.” Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.

Allah yerhamak @HamidMurtada. Losing you feels unreal. You were one of the kindest, most genuine people I knew — always respectful, always thoughtful, always present for others. Sudan didn't just lose a bright mind, it lost someone who truly cared and gave his best. Your absence leaves a heavy silence, but your character, your warmth, and your integrity will never be forgotten. Rest in peace, my friend. You will be deeply missed.

I was happy to review Harry Cross' new book Undoing a Revolution: Sudan and the Politics of Debt in @atarnetwork atarnetwork.com/?p=25376

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. —Frank O’Hara

Absolutely true-and it makes sense that a former CIA employee would assume the death of humanity occurred among the victims rather than the perpetrators of this unjust war.

to live with an open heart does get tougher as you get older, but it becomes more important to do so, more urgent, essential

RT @sighahh: Translated text: 🔴 Victims on the margins of the war: children and girls in care homes After the death of a young girl who w…

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Check out the revival issue of the Makerere Historical Journal!

This article profiles how impressive Khartoum residents are in rebuilding their homes together, as a community. I'm struck by the injustice of it though nextcity.org/urbanist-news/s…